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...There will come a time in the world where those of us who are the products of love and lust are going to be viewed differently than those who are products of the lab,” Khan said. “Those who have a more favored gene composition are going to be favored over those...
This new generation of art novels is different from Lust for Life (about Van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo). Irving Stone's old blockbusters were the testosterone-laden version of art history. The central voice now is more likely to be a woman's. In Sarah Dunant's agile new novel, The Birth of Venus (Random House; 394 pages), the fictional narrator is Alessandra Cecchi, 14, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in the Florence of Michelangelo and Botticelli. Alessandra yearns to live with a brush in her hand. For that matter, she would be happy...
That world is full of dangers. Charles VIII of France is preparing to march on the city. The fanatical monk Savonarola is raging from the pulpit against lust and luxury. His religious police, a kind of Christian Taliban, will soon be enforcing godliness with a cudgel, punishing sodomists and chasing women indoors. The turmoil outside interests Alessandra, but what really absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though...
...pushed ever outward (nice job, Janet and Justin), it gets harder all the time to find the line between frankness and prurience - especially in young-adult literature. British novelist Melvin Burgess was clearly astride it last year with Doing It, an explicit (not to mention popular) story of schoolboy lust that he defended as realistic but many denounced as misogynistic pornography. And Burgess has plenty of company; in fact, with teen-fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young readers scurry off to the fantasy section instead...
...raise children who are healthy?emotionally, socially, spiritually and, yes, sexually. I have been waiting for a special issue on how America's trash culture is destroying the next generation of our children. Perhaps it is too late for that, as it seems parents have condoned and normalized lust, greed, infidelity, gore, violence, perversion and all kinds of addictions. When I hear that it is up to parents to protect their kids, I laugh at the impossibility of that happening in a culture in which every media source is replete with vulgarity, suggestive images, sex and violence. Mary Ann Sementelli...